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Crossing Puddles

by Diana Walters | Oct 15, 2023 | Essays | 3 |

I was frequently disillusioned by his refusal to be the proper male lead in my story.

The words just come tripping from your mouths sometimes because you can’t take one more second of being so damn sad.

by Delaney McLemore | Jul 23, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

You define that decade of dream for me, mother-friend, you I hoped to be like when I grew up.

by Christine Feldman | Jul 9, 2023 | Essays | 8 |

I hope the sound of my voice is comforting and that on some level he knows me.

by Wendy Fontaine | Jul 2, 2023 | Essays | 4 |

Your lies are harmless, not so much untruths as they are fantasies.

by Mary H. Hui | May 28, 2023 | Essays | 3 |

I had fought against this Confucian hierarchy for years, wishing to be seen for who and where I was in my life.

by Karen Zey | May 7, 2023 | Essays | 11 |

How had she found this luminous line amid the darkness of her pain?

by Audrey Wick | Feb 26, 2023 | Essays | 6 |

But the secret I was keeping was that I felt so very weak.

by Jennifer Lang | Feb 12, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

For years, I thought home was lost.

by Anastasia Jill | Jan 29, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

Soon enough, I was going to be an orphan.

by Rebecca Fremo | Dec 4, 2022 | Essays | 0 |

I try to pull myself together.

by N.T. McQueen | Nov 27, 2022 | Essays | 0 |

I never had so much fun failing.